I jsut got a mac form my dad its a g4 and its like not the newest version of osx so nothign seems to work right wiht it x.x; Anyways i got final cut pro 4 but for some reason after i import anythign its like "unrendered" when i try to play it >> Then when i try to render it it says like 13 hours remaining Dx; Is there any way I can fix this? D:

shazzy wrote:I wrote a whole tutorial on the pre-editing conversion process for the Mac. You'll want to read all the pages in the Concept section. Yes, it will take some time, but making AMVs has a learning curve.

well im trying to mess with dvix codec/avi format now but it still saying like 10 minutes to render like a 10 second clip so thats not working for me... x.x; it also like shut downs when i try to change sequence settigns for some reason ._.; I have the dvix codec downloaded for my mac so they do play in quicktime fine xp

Don't edit in DiVX. If DV is too big of a file format, I would recommend buying a cheap external hard drive (you can get an 80GB one for about $50). You could also try Apple Intermediate Codec, which is slightly smaller in size.

shazzy wrote:Don't edit in DiVX. If DV is too big of a file format, I would recommend buying a cheap external hard drive (you can get an 80GB one for about $50). You could also try Apple Intermediate Codec, which is slightly smaller in size.

well i tried Xvid too which rendered a lot faster but problem is... i dont exactly have the best codec for it x.x; for some reason i cant get the newest one becuase i dont have the newest OS for mac and my dad says it prob wont run on mine because its too slow Dx It work fine on my PC though. But on my Mac, in quicktime it lags and wont play right and in FPC it jsut like makes a lot of square blocks everywhere x.X hmm is there a way to enocde it with apple intermediate codec? I dunno much about Compressor... it doesnt like me xD; i jsut been using my encoder on my pc for em... hmm...

shazzy - Does that walk-through apply only to Macs? I'm on Windows XP. Windows Media Player keeps telling me I need Xvid or DiVX, but everyone else says not to edit with that stuff. So I really don't know what to do - sorry for my total and (I'm sure) annoying ignorance. Dx